DAWN - Books and Authors; January 06, 2008

January 06, 2008

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An elusive peace Acrisis in America’s foreign policy is a crisis for the whole mankind, since the use or misuse of its immense, unmatched power affects everyone...		EXCERPT: The battle for peace The work is an update on peace and globalisation, its success and discontents, as illuminated on by eminent scholars and thinkers...

REVIEWS: Faces of violence ‘A woman’s body is a tool for the husband’s pleasure and for procreation; it is a shameful thing, (awra) that must be guarded by the family....		REVIEWS: Winners and losers Mark Halperin, political director of ABC News, and John F. Harris, national political editor of The Washington Post as well as the author of Bill Clinton’s biography....

REVIEWS: Feminism and the modern woman This reader takes Women in Indian Society: A reader, published in 1988, a step further by exploring urban women’s issues in a world of globalisation....		REVIEWS: Bilbo’s tale Like Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland or J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter block-busters, The Hobbit is a book for children that adults would likewise....

REVIEWS: Return to the Pantheon Pagan Resurrection by Richard Rudgley was always going to be an interesting book to review. Certainly, with a byline that raises the sensational...		PROFILE: Farewell to a friend IT was during the early 1990s when amidst a horrid ethnic cleansing in Bosnia and the rising tide of Islamophobia, I attended an interfaith meeting...

REVIEWS: Declining fortunes Nearly 60 years after our independence, we are still grappling with the issue of how to give appropriate education to the citizens of the country....		REVIEWS: History of Urdu fiction ‘Fiction’ is among the words that have been borrowed by Urdu from the English language but this loan word has very much become part of the Urdu....

REVIEWS: Tinge of romance The book under review is the Urdu translation of Memories of my Melancholy Whores written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. The original novel....		COLUMN: Spirit of rebellion IN THE early decades of Pakistan our newspapers and periodicals were very enthusiastic in bringing out special editions at the end of the year....